Posted on 07/06/2016
Students from Royal Holloway, University of London are giving up their time this week, to help out in the local community as part of Community Action’s annual Volunteers’ Week.
The year’s Volunteers’ Week is sponsored by Enterprise Rent-A-Car, whose staff will be working alongside student volunteers on the Food4Lunch supermarket collection at Waitrose Egham and creating a café garden at the Forest Estate Community Hub in Englefield Green.
ACS International School Egham collected donations towards the Food4Lunch scheme, with parents packing over 200 foodbags for Runnymede Foodbank to support local children during school holidays.
On campus students are promoting the Donate & Reuse project which supports the BHF Pack for Good campaign and donations towards the local Foodbank and assisted a Love Your Campus project, planting of shrubs attract pollinating insects and butterflies.
Other projects include working with a national community initiative called The Big Tidy Up, and running some regular student-led projects; Nature Conservation with National Trust, and a river clean-up project with Thames21.
This year Volunteers’ Week will see Royal Holloway enter its second decade of hosting an annual week as part of the national initiative. Volunteers' Week is an annual initiative when hundreds of events and celebrations will take place across the country to say thank you to volunteers, recognising the important contribution they make.
Phil Simcock, Community Action Volunteer Manager, said: “Volunteers’ Week is a great time to get active in the local community and serve the needs of others alongside other volunteers. It is fantastic to see the enthusiasm of young and old to make a difference within their surrounding area.”
Volunteers’ Week takes place from 1-12 June. For more information visit the Community Action webpage or Facebook page.